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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Magdalena Del Valle |Fola Akinnibi
Also Today: Trump freeze spurs fight over $3.6 billion for homelessness, and small towns are better for upward mobility. For much of the day on Wednesday, four US mayors found themselves under intense questioning from members of Congress about their cities’ sanctuary policies.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Sarah Holder |Magdalena Del Valle
Also today: the landscape architect who embraced the city, and Norway will allow zero emission transport zones. This morning, US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already announced retaliatory tariffs, and Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum plans to do so this weekend.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Magdalena Del Valle |Kriston Capps
Also today: Cities grapple with urban warehouse pollution, and a potential ‘Metro tax’ on LA World Cup, Olympics tickets. Tenants’ advocates are closely watching the federal budget as it begins to take shape. The process could affect the fates of millions of households who receive or qualify for housing assistance in the form of Section 8 vouchers. Existing House and Senate budget proposals both include some funding increases.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Magdalena Del Valle |Kriston Capps
Also today: Another legal showdown for NYC’s congestion pricing, and NYC to shut migrant center as crisis eases. Housing organizations around the US rely on the federal government to address homelessness. Congress appropriates billions of dollars each year to crisis hotlines for families, rapid rehousing for veterans and shelters for domestic violence victims — funds that for the most part go toward basic operating costs.
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2 months ago | 
bloomberg.com | Linda Poon |Magdalena Del Valle
Also today: Elon Musk is one step closer to creating his own city in Texas, and can Portland turn a corner? Moving Day was once an annual celebration of mobility in the US, a chaotic moment when tens of thousands of renters packed up and moved as leases expired en masse. Today it’s a lost holiday as Americans have become less likely to relocate, even if it means missing out on better opportunities.
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2 months ago | 
bloomberg.com | Linda Poon |Magdalena Del Valle
Also today: NYC’s new transit leader builds a worker-driven strategy, and the latest on Elon’s ‘buyout’ offer to federal workers. State Farm, the largest home insurer in California, is asking state regulators for an emergency rate hike averaging 22% in the aftermath of last month’s wildfires in Los Angeles.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Linda Poon |Magdalena Del Valle
Also today: Sanctuary cities prep for another showdown with Trump, and a deadly landslide of garbage in Uganda. At a gathering ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, dozens of mayors sent the message to federal officials that affordable housing is their top priority.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Magdalena Del Valle |Linda Poon
Also today: LA fires push insurance market to its limit, and US homes used a record amount of power to keep cool. The ongoing fires that have killed at least 24 people in Los Angeles also burned thousands of buildings, leaving only a few still standing along their paths. On one fire-ravaged street in Pacific Palisades, one home stands alone fully intact: The newly completed house was builtwith heat-treated wood and a metal roof, fenced off by concrete garden walls.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Linda Poon |Magdalena Del Valle
Also today: Gridlocked cars become enduring image of LA fires, and ambitious high-speed rail plans advance in the Baltic region. The devastation from ongoing blazes across the Los Angeles region illustrates the hazards of living in the so-called wildland-urban interface, where flammable wilderness meets human development.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Magdalena Del Valle |Linda Poon
Also today: The city centers with the worst traffic, and the latest on the LA wildfires. Deadlines for Local Law 97 – NYC’s landmark rule requiring nearly 50,000 large buildings to cut their emissions starting this year or face fines – are approaching, and so are the bills to make the necessary upgrades. Condo and co-op residents already paying some of the highest housing prices in the US are raising concerns about cost as they brace for hefty fee and rent increases.
